The end of the world is the harvest, and the reapers are the collectors of souls. That is why death carries a scythe ...
Revelation 14:14-19
The Reapers
14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like [a]a son of man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. 15 And another angel came out of the [b]temple, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “[c]Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth [d]is ripe.” 16 Then He who sat on the cloud [e]swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.